Your guest at dinner kisses you. What does it mean? Where does it lead? Does kissing necessarily imply more, and if so how much? These and similar questions of amorous ethics and erotic disquisition are central to our everyday intimate public lives and they are the lost object of the law of love, the lex amatoria collated and presented here.
Your guest at dinner kisses you. What does it mean? Where does it lead? Does kissing necessarily imply more, and if so how much? These and similar questions of amorous ethics and erotic disquisition are central to our everyday intimate public lives and they are the lost object of the law of love, the lex amatoria collated and presented here.
PETER GOODRICH is Professor of Law and Director, Law and Humanities at Cardozo School of Law, New York USA. He was the founding dean of the Department of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, where he was also the Corporation of London Professor of Law. He has written extensively in the areas of law and literature and semiotics and has authored 10 books. He is editor of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law and editor-in-chief of Law and Critique.
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Preface Introduction: A Short History of the Laws of Love Erotic Melancholy Purloined Love Letters Contracts of Love Amorous Wrong by Words Amorous Wrong by Deeds The Casuistry of Kissing Pain, Pleasure and Play Fidelity and Faithlessness Intimate Violence Suicide Gifts Conclusion: Does Love have Standing? Abbreviated Bibliographies Index Amorum
Preface Introduction: A Short History of the Laws of Love Erotic Melancholy Purloined Love Letters Contracts of Love Amorous Wrong by Words Amorous Wrong by Deeds The Casuistry of Kissing Pain, Pleasure and Play Fidelity and Faithlessness Intimate Violence Suicide Gifts Conclusion: Does Love have Standing? Abbreviated Bibliographies Index Amorum
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